A/N: Yell at me all you want to, but yes I am here with yet another story. This one is going to be something that I have never done before, but also something that I think is completely original. It's a Cougar Town and Friends crossover. The basic plot is that Ellie, Andy, Stan, Travis, Grayson and Jules are moving to New York where Ross, Rachel, Monica and Chandler are (they are the main relationships that I am focusing on from Friends but I will include the other characters, however the only characters from Cougar Town are the ones that I am including. I also have a book that only focuses on Cougar Town, and if you are interested, I would appreciate you checking it out. Anyway, let's get to the first chapter:

Chapter 1

"We're finally in New York," Jules breathes.

"Dime eyes here is struggling to contain his excitement," Ellie says, as she wheels her suitcase and tries to juggle Stan's baby carrier as well.

Jules glances at Grayson, who is looking somewhere between tired and fed up. She motions to start talking to him, but decides against it, especially since they had a taxi to catch that was taking them out of the city to Westchester County. Jules and Grayson would be sharing a house that was adjacent to Ellie and Andy, and Travis would be sharing with Jules and Grayson until the apartment in Manhattan that he had been able to buy was ready for him to move into.

"It's been hard for all of us to move," Jules says, looking back at Grayson in the hope that he might hear her acknowledgement.

"You don't say," Ellie shrugs, "although it's nice to be able to completely redesign the house exactly as I want it again."

Jules rolled her eyes. "I'm happy about that too," she says, "and Glen said that it would be a nice opportunity to let Grayson add the touches he wants to the design."

"If only that would actually end up being the case," Ellie says, purposely sounding dreamy.

Jules scowls.

"I don't know why she has faith in discharging you guys," Ellie adds, ignoring Andy's warning look.

"We were moving too far away from the catchment area that she sees clients from," Jules says, attempting to reason with the conversation. "Besides, she said that she thought that we were in a stable enough relationship to be able to sort out problems between ourselves."

Ellie snorts, and Jules decides that trying to fight Ellie any further would slow them down so she ignores it.

All six of them manage to find their designated cab in the parking lot outside of the JFK airport, and start driving out of the city.

"I'm so excited for this," Andy whispers to Ellie, Stan's baby carrier half on his and Ellie's laps as an attempt to keep it balanced.

"I'm not," Ellie says, nonchalantly, swatting Andy.

Andy knew Ellie well enough to see right through Ellie's apparent disinterest in the move. He knew that she was desperately excited for the change in scenery, and that coming back to New York was something that she had had plans for as long as he had known her. He, himself, shared his wife's excitement for the change of scenery and what it would have to offer for Ellie and his son. Saying goodbye to his long-time best friend, Bobby, had been the hardest element of the move for him but he was sure that it would become easier and they had promised to stay in touch and Andy had even thought about mailing tickets to Bobby back in Gulfhaven to come and visit.

"Are you sure about that?" he asked, looking at Ellie in the way that he knew that would be able to ease the truth out of her.

"You're right," Ellie admitted, smiling back at Andy. "I can't believe I get to share this experience with all the people I care the most about."

"Me neither," he says, revelling in this moment with his wife. "I love you so much."

"I love you too, boo," Ellie replied, and Andy could see that her whole face was light up and smiling.

They both turn away from each other, and look ahead. Jules is sitting in the seat in front of Ellie and Andy with Grayson, directly behind the driver. Travis is sandwiched in the seat between them, much to his disapproval.

Jules and Grayson weren't talking to each other. Jules didn't want to bring up the move with Grayson because she knew how heart-wrenchingly difficult leaving his house and business had been and to remind him would be completely unfair. Grayson was not speaking to Jules as a way to try and keep a distance from the situation, and he was desperate to not have to face the reality as long as possible. It tore him apart because he loved Jules so much, but he couldn't stand the pain of the reality.

"The fact that you two aren't even talking is making the already awkward situation like 10 times worse for me," Travis comments, looking at Grayson and Jules's mutually dull expressions.

Jules scowls in response, and Grayson shot Travis an equally unhappy look.

Travis threw up his hands in surrender. "I'm sor-ry," he says, looking guilty. He turns to focus on the front of the cab, and the busy traffic on the road ahead.

After about 35 more minutes of sitting in busy traffic, the roads start to get less heavily populated and the surroundings are full of more greenery than buildings. A little further down the last highway that they would be travelling down, they passed that sign that welcomed them into Westchester County.

"I'll finally be out of here soon," Travis rejoices.

This time, Ellie, Jules and Grayson all shoot him glares. "What?" he says, sounding annoyed. "I get to get out of this uncomfortable situation with you three grumps! What could be better than that?"

Ellie decides to comment. "Not being homeless until you get the apartment, at the request of Jules and Grayson specially."

Travis gives her a cold look, but decides to stop soon after because he didn't want to give Ellie the satisfaction that she was craving from his reaction. Nevertheless, it was the truth of the potential outcome, so he shut up completely at the mercy of needing to avoid homelessness.

The journey only lasted about another 10 minutes, and soon enough the cab was pulling into the new neighbourhood that would become home to the six. Ellie and Andy got out of the cab first, and stood and admired their new home.

"What do you think?" Andy asks, in awe, whilst also keeping a firm grip on the handle of Stan's carrier.

"Nothing that I hadn't expected from the photographs," Ellie shrugs, struggling to cover up the awestruck expression that hadn't passed Andy's notice.

"Stop lying to me," Andy says, shaking his head. "You love it really."

Ellie scowls. "I hate you that you know me so well," she said, rolling her eyes.

"I don't because otherwise I would have left you a long time ago," Andy says, and Ellie attempts to hide a smile.

"Sure, sure," Ellie says, dismissively.

Jules walks up to Ellie and Andy, and they turn around in surprise.

"Sorry to interrupt the world's most unlikely couple," Jules starts to say, "but I was just coming to say that the removal van guy called me to say that he will be here with our stuff hopefully today, but possibly tomorrow. He did say that he was sorry but it really sucks."

Ellie's expression darkens, and Andy winces and gives Jules his best warning look.

"Is there nothing he can do to get here any quicker?" Ellie asks, her voice rising. "We have nothing for Stan apart from the on the go things, and this is the only full outfit we both have!"

Andy moves closer towards Ellie, trying to figure out best to calm her down. Jules offers to take Stan's baby carrier from Andy, and backs away slightly to allow Ellie and Andy to have privacy to figure the situation out.

"Boo, what do you want me to do?" Andy asks Ellie, putting his arm around her shoulder.

"Just don't leave whilst we sort this," Ellie says softly, making eye contact with Andy.

He looks back at her, and smiles. "Of course, boo," he says, noticing the trusting look in Ellie's eyes as they maintain their gaze at each other. "I agreed in marriage that I would never leave you when you needed me, whatever the circumstance, and you can bet on me keeping my word."

"I love you so much," Ellie says and Andy could see from her expression that she really meant every single word. "I hope you never forget that."

"I won't, boo," Andy says, leaning in closer to kiss Ellie. The kiss lasted about three seconds before Ellie breaks away and starts talking.

"I think I know what we can do for Stan, at least," she says, and Andy's eyes light up.

"That's awesome!" he exclaims, before heaving a huge sigh of relief.

"Slow down, child," Ellie says, sounding more like herself and less like a worried wreck, which Andy was glad of. "I'm going to ask Jules if she would be willing to see if anyone in the neighbourhood would be willing to lend any of their baby stuff to us."

"Okay," Andy says, watching Ellie walk back over to Jules, who was sitting with Stan on the doorstep to her new home.

"Jules," Ellie says, and Jules looks up from where she had been staring at whilst being spaced out.

"Yes, Ellie?" Jules replies. "Do you want Stan back or what?"

"Yeah," Ellie replies. "So I can take him back to Andy. But that wasn't really my reason for coming to talk with you – I was actually wondering whether you would ask around the neighbourhood to see if anyone has any spare or old baby stuff for us."

Jules nods. "Sure," she says. "Do you want to come with me or is it definitely just me?"

"Just you," Ellie replies quickly, sounding very certain. "I'm surprised you would actually ask because we all know how much I hate talking to humans."

"I know," Jules says, slightly defensively. "I just thought that I would ask because it might be a good idea to get to know at least some of our neighbours."

"Yeah, no thanks," Ellie says, grabbing Stan's baby carrier from Jules briskly. "Have fun." She stops for a minute and adds, "Or rather, good luck."

Jules rolls her eyes, and stands up to walk down the steps outside her house. She turns directly to the house on the right, as the one on the left was Ellie and Andy's. She walks up the steps to the front door, and stands on the doorstep, ringing the bell.

The door opens after three rings on the doorbell, and reveals a slender, brunette-haired woman dressed in track pants and a patterned blouse.

"Hi," the woman says. Jules is drawn to her bright blue eyes, which are full of curiosity at the sight of her. "Can I help you at all?" she asks.

"So sorry," Jules starts to say, embarrassment washing over her. "I forgot to introduce myself. I'm Jules Cobb, and I just moved into the house next to yours on the right."

"The one that was up for sale?" the woman asks, and Jules nods. "Oh cool!" she says, "I'm Monica Geller-Bing, but friends and family just call me Mon. I have two kindergarten aged twins, Erica and Jack, and the best husband I could ever ask for, Chandler Bing. And I work a job as a head chef at a restaurant called Javu. What about yourself?"

Jules pauses to think before answering. As much as she was really interested to find out about her neighbours, now wasn't really the time for that. However, she was at a loss over how to tell Monica that and so she just decided to answer the question, hoping that there would be a time that she could bring the conversation back to what she really needed especially because it would seem that Monica would actually have the baby equipment that Ellie and Andy needed.

"I have a boyfriend called Grayson Ellis, and a son called Travis," Jules says, and Monica nods politely for Jules to continue. "Up until recently, I had a job as a real estate agent, but because of the move I'll have to do something else. Grayson and I are actually both unemployed as of now."

Monica looks at Jules sympathetically. "That sounds a little rough. Do you have any new jobs in mind?"

Jules felt a little put on the spot by that question, as it had been on her mind, but nothing had been finalised. She didn't want Monica's pity, but at the same time she had no real answer. In the end, she decided to go for the most ambiguous answer that she could think of on the spot. "We've both been looking into jobs around here ever since we planned the move, so I think we'll be all good," she says, hoping that Monica wouldn't question her further.

"That's good," Monica says, looking genuinely happy for Jules and Grayson. "Was there any particular reason that you decided to come and speak to me, besides to get to know me? It's just so rare within this neighbourhood, unless you are coming to ask for something."

Jules heaves a huge sigh of relief in her mind. She had just been saved the potential humiliation of trying to insert the favour that Ellie wanted, and she was rejoicing. "My friend and her husband, who moved with Grayson and I, have a baby and they don't have any of their essential home stuff for him because of the shitty removal van," she ends up saying.

"Oh no!" Monica exclaims, looking like she genuinely cares for the situation. "I'm like 98% that I have some of Erica and Jack's stuff left over, so they might be able to use that."

Jules looks even more grateful than she was initially. "Do you want to have them come in with their boy?" she asks Monica, hoping that it's not too big of a favour.

"Seems like a good idea," Monica says, and Jules walks back down the steps and to Ellie and Andy.

She tells and Andy and Ellie the proposition, and tries to ignore Ellie's disappointed look when she realises that borrowing baby stuff off of Monica will involve having a decent conversation with her. Andy, on the other hand, seems to be appreciative and grateful for the offer. He leads a grudging Ellie up the steps as they follow Jules to Monica.

"Hi," Monica says cheerfully, when all three of them are on the top step in front of Monica and Chandler's doorstep.

"Hiya," Andy replies, digging Ellie in the ribs with his elbow with the arm that wasn't holding Stan's baby carrier.

"I'm really sorry, but I don't think Jules ever mentioned what your names are," Monica says, sounding genuinely apologetic.

Andy decided to speak, despite flashing Ellie a look because he wanted her also to speak and she was adamant that she wasn't going to. "I'm Andy Torres," Andy says, "and this is my wife Ellie, and my son Stanley." Monica's gaze turned to the baby carrier in Andy's grip.

Andy took the opportunity to elbow Ellie in the ribs a second time whilst Monica was focused on the baby. Ellie looked at him with a quizzical look, so Andy turns away and starts to focus back on Monica, Jules and Stan. "I'll get you back for this," Ellie whispers in his ear. Andy continued to ignore her, especially since he wasn't interested in conversation with Ellie especially because she seemed to be so ungrateful for the help that their kind neighbour was offering. Often Ellie was this confusing and predictable at the same time, and so Andy just knew that the best thing to do was not give Ellie the satisfaction that she wanted.

A/N: Here you guys go with this ridiculously long first chapter at almost 3k words. If you're wondering why it's so long, I got really excited with the idea of this and got completely sucked in by it. I hope that you guys will enjoy it, and read and review it and maybe even suggest some plot ideas because I will always be grateful for them. I also wanted to apologise for my tendency to switch between the past and the present tenses – it's because I have never really properly written from the 3rd person perspective and so it's one of the things that I hope I will get better at the more I write this way. Just as a disclaimer, I want to remind everyone reading this that I don't own any of the characters mentioned in this book that are mentioned in either the original shows of Cougar Town or Friends, and the credits go to Bill Lawrence and anyone else who wrote Cougar Town and Marta Kauffman and David Crane who wrote Friends. Again, I would also ask if you are curious, to check out the three books I am writing as part of the trilogy, and the one that I am writing which is solely based on Cougar Town.